Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Springer Open Choice

First some administrative stuff. Posting will be light until the New
Years. The comments feed is not working properly—Blogger is
working on it. I deleted a spam comment from
my spam
post before I realized the comment was a joke. Sorry.

We just finished up an article
for the Springer journal Theory
of Computing Systems. If you go to the article's
web page
you'll see the paper is open access, you can download it from
anywhere. How did that happen?

In the final stages of production, Springer offered us the opportunity
to have our paper in their
new Open Choice
plan. For a fee we could have our paper downloadable with a license
similar to that used
by Creative
Commons for non-commercial use.

That fee would be $3000, far too much than I'm willing to pay to let
you download the paper from Springer when you can download a version
from my home page for free.

But Springer has deals with some institutions, mostly Dutch, to offer
Open Choice for all their papers. And one of my co-authors is
Dutch. So enjoy!